French ship Dantzig (1807)
Dantzig was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
![]() Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Dantzig (1807), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
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Name: | Dantzig |
Namesake: | Siege of Danzig |
Builder: | Antwerp[1] |
Laid down: | May 1805 [1] |
Launched: | 15 August 1807 [1] |
Decommissioned: | 1815 [1] |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type: | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
Displacement: |
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Length: | 55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied) |
Beam: | 14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in) |
Draught: | 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied) |
Propulsion: | Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails |
Armament: |
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Armour: | Timber |
Career
Ordered on 24 April 1804 as Illustre, Dantzig was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.
In 1807, she crossed from Antwerp to Vlissingen for a refit. [1]
At the Bourbon Restoration, she was renamed to Achille, and ceded to Holland with the Treaty of Paris. [1]
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
Citations
- Roche, vol.1, p.140
- Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 140. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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